Collection Highlights
William Pitt, the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
Date:
ca. 1770
Object Number:
1864.5
Medium:
Marble
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Kerchief
Object Number:
1952.298
Date:
1896
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. ( 69.8 x 64.1 cm )
Marks:
printed: center: "PROTECTION/ FINANCIAL/ STABILITY/ RECIPROCITY/ FOR PRESIDENT/ WILLIAM Mc.KINLEY/ FOR VICE PRESIDENT/ GARRET A. HOBART"
Description:
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief of William McKinley and Garret Hobart; red, white and blue stripes, stars in the red and blue stripes, portraits in center white stripe flanked by U.S. flags and a U.S. shield above; printed in red, blue and yellow on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the 1896 presidential campaign of William McKinley.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 304.
Credit Line:
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